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Bags, it would require certain stores to levee a fee on thicker multi-use bags. >> the bill authorizes the use of this thicker plastic bag, only in america would it say support the plastic bag on a plastic bag five times the size of the current plastic bag. okay? >> but wouldn't it be shifting public action, we tart get real reusable bags. >> if the plastic bag did not exist, we would hope someone would invent it. i think we need the conversation from eliminating this product to how can we capture more of these bags in the recycling stream? >> what percentage of the single use are actually rec...

Stores to levee a fee on thicker multi-use bags. >> the bill authorizes the use of this thicker plastic bag, only in america would it say support the plastic bag ban on a plastic bag five times the size of the current plastic bag. okay? >> but wouldn't it be shifting public action. >> if the plastic bag did not exist, we would hope someone would invent it. i think we need the conversation from eliminating this product to how can we capture more of these bags in the recycling stream? >> what percentage of the single use bags are actually recycled? it's less than 10%. they get sent to landfills ...

Decontaminated so that there is no cadmium left on that material. and that would be expensive. >> reporter: they say no state or federal cleanup dollars will be used. the tab, reported to be at $2.2 million job, belongs to abound. and if what's left of the company's resources don't cover it, property owners will be stuck with costs, as reusable inventory goes to other solar manufacturers. >> i think what you'll see is many of the materials that were left behind will end up in a recycling stream. >> reporter: the solar energy industry's association says despite the dangerous mess, solar is stil...

Discovered at four facilities. >> so those facilities are big, there's a lot of machinery left behind. that machinery needs to be decontaminated so that there is no cadmium left on that material. and that will be expensive. >> reporter: a reported $2.2 million job. the state health d. says no state or federal dollars will be used to take care of this, but in addition to those panels, state workers also found 55 gallon drums of cadmium-contaminated fluids in tanks filled with 2500 gallons of contaminated water. those in support of gathering energy from the sun say solar is still safe. >> solar ...

Decontaminated so that there is no cadmium left on that material. and that would be expensive. >> reporter: they say no state or federal cleanup dollars will be used. the tab, reported to be at $2.2 million job, belongs to abound. and if what's left of the company's resources don't cover it, property owners will be stuck with costs, as reusable inventory goes to other solar manufacturers. >> i think what you'll see is many of the materials that were left behind will end up in a recycling stream. >> reporter: the solar energy industry's association says despite the dangerous mess, solar is stil...